| MINERS, MILLHANDS, AND MOUNTAINEERS Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 Ronald D. Eller Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, September 1982 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-87049-341-6 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-87049-341-8 | 272pp. | SC/BWI | $25.00 | |
| Page 154: | "Within a year, coal for steam purposes rose from about eighy cents per ton at the mine to as much as six or seven dollars per ton for prompt shipment." |
| Spelling: S/B "eighty". |
| Page 187: | "Although colliery schools were nominally headed by county superintendents, the coal company usually provided the building and supplies and contacted the teacher..." |
| Spelling: S/B "contracted". |
| Page 199: | de Tocqueville quote: "What they most ask of men is obedience, what they most convet is empire." |
| Spelling: S/B "covet". |
| Page 229: | "Despite the vast wealth within its borders, the southern mountains remained comparatively poor—not because it was backward, but because its wealth enriched the modernizing centers in other parts of the country." |
| Number error: S/B "their" and "they were". (arguable) |
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